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The most extensive collection of cartoons by one of the world’s best‐loved illustrators, Jean‐Jacques Sempé.
UK edition. The day-to-day adventures of an amusing, endearing young school boy.
Renowned New Yorker cover illustrater Jean-Jacques Sempé illustrates the quirky charm of France's capital and it's residents with his signature style and gentle sense of humor and irony. His drawings are famed for their striking use of pen and ink, their inimitable style, and most of all for their satire and tragic-comic vision. The 128 drawings in this charming portfolio are sweet and sentimental. They somehow manage to be gentle even when the topic is difficult. They probe the quirkiness of life in Paris and wordlessly pinpoint the quintessential features of the City of Light, creating a world peopled by lovers strolling along the Seine, culture mavens preening in the Louvre, and characters who are ready to see the comic and the light-hearted beyond life's problems. Anyone who has fallen in love with Paris will be sure to cherish this charming keepsake.
Sempe has created a world above and beyond specific cultural and political references, a world all of his own, one populated by long-faced, aquiline-nosed depressives - psychoanalysts, housewives, and concert pianists."
The second collection of Semp's cartoons to be published in France features some of his favorite subjects: hapless tourists, pipe-smoking novelists, and unruly schoolchildren.
In his most recent collections of cartoons, Semp turns his attention to the trappings of modern life, from mobile phones to designer water. Each volume in the collection contains about 100 illustrations.
The satirical and the surreal genius who has created an unmistakable world of the imagination. Jean-Jacques Sempe, whose books receive instant classic status in France, is an artist known and loved worldwide, with more than twenty collections of drawings published in over thirty countries. He has created the most immediately recognizable style of any illustrator since James Thurber. It is his genius for sweeping satirical observation that has won him such a tremendous following in America. Like every great artist, Sempe has created a world above and beyond specific cultural and political references, a world all his own, one populated by long-faced, aquiline-nosed depressives -- psychoanalysts, housewives, and concert pianists. Mother rabbits explain divorce, dogs groove to Walkmans, old women nag their Higher Power about money, and any reader who falls into this hilarious and all-too-familiar world finds it hard to leave.
Hardback notebook featuring cartoons on the theme of psychoanalysis.
A journal featuring illustrations by world-renowned cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé.